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Esq.; Harrison G. Dyar, Esq.; Nathan Banks, Esq.; Dr. 
John B. Smith, Sc.D.; D. W. Coquillet, Esq. 
The University of the State of New York presented a fine 
set of Reports of the State Museum for 1898 and 1899 (52.1, 
52.25 5311, 53.2). 
The Radcliffe Librarian, Oxford, presented the Catalogue 
of Books added during Igor. 
The United States Department of Agriculture presented 
“A Biological Investigation of the Hudson Bay Region,’ by 
Edward A. Prebble, Esq. (Washington, 1902). 
The Boston Society of Natural History and the Bombay 
Natural History Society presented their publications for the 
year 1902. The latter series, complete from the beginning, 
was in the original paper covers and most unsafe. It has 
now been bound down to the last complete volume. The 
early volumes of the Boston Society of Natural History were 
bound, and in arranging the others for the binder it was found 
that many parts were wanting. The Professor wrote to the 
Secretary of the Society, who very kindly supplied the missing 
numbers so far as they were still available. All complete 
volumes have now been bound. 
The Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, 
presented the Report of the Syndicate for gol. 
“Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie” (Leipzig, 1875, 1876), 
by Dr. August Weismann, Hon. D.C.L., was presented by Pro- 
fessor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S. The copy is that used in the 
preparation of the well-known English edition of the work, 
and it is rendered interesting and valuable by the inclusion 
of a number of manuscript notes from the author, and of 
marginal notes by the translator and editor of the English 
edition, Professor Meldola. 
Parts III and IV of the “ Monograph of the Membracidae”’ 
were presented by the author, George Bowdler Buckton, Esq., 
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A Monograph on “The Tettigidae of North America” 
(Chicago, 1902) was presented by the author, Joseph Lane 
Hancock, Esq. 
